Poll: No U.S. military action in Syria

Most Americans oppose U.S. military action in Syria, a new poll finds.

According to a Gallup survey out Friday, 68 percent of Americans say that the U.S. should not resort to military action if diplomatic and economic efforts don’t stop the civil war that is raging in Syria. Twenty-four percent of Americans would back military action. But Americans aren’t hopeful that other efforts to stop the conflict will succeed: 58 percent don’t think that economic and diplomatic measures alone will stop the war; 27 percent do.

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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) earlier this week surreptitiously visited Syria to meet with some rebel forces who are clashing with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the death toll resulting from two years of civil war in Syria clocked in at around 80,000 people earlier this month.